The human body is made up of about 30 trillion cells that carry a code which has been duplicated over and over for billions of years – with varying degrees of accuracy. So what happens when the system breaks down and the machinery turns on itself, leading to cancer? Greg Foot dives into the science […]
You’re on an airplane when you feel a sudden jolt. Outside your window nothing seems to be happening, yet the plane continues to rattle you and your fellow passengers as it passes through turbulent air in the atmosphere. What exactly is turbulence, and why does it happen? Tomás Chor dives into one of the prevailing […]
No offense to that rock you may have on your finger, but these gems and minerals are so hard to find, they put most diamonds to shame. [SciShow]
Here is the first picture ever of a supermassive black hole. This one is at the center for the M87 galaxy 53 million light years away. From The National Science Foundation: It is still impossible to image the actual black hole (again, that intense gravity let’s nothing escape) so the data being collected is light […]
On Wednesday April 10 2019, the Event Horizon telescope will be releasing the first ever image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. But what will this image really be showing us? Watch this episode of Veritasium to find out! [Veritasium]
Two great beverages that many geeks like and how each affect your brain. [Source: Ilovecoffee.jp | Via West Coast Beer Geek on Facebook]
This video is about compressed air cans (aka gas dusters) and why they get cold when you spray them. They cool off because the refrigerant inside (1,1-difluoroethane) is under pressure and boils off when the pressure lowers, and energy lost to the latent heat of vaporization cools the can a lot. Difluoroethane normally boils at […]
For those of you who still don’t know, Geeks Are Sexy is a Canadian-based website. So after our crazy winter, it is a gentle relief to see the terrifying geese reappear, finally indicating the end of this white, freezing hell. It left us wondering just what distance these aggressive little things actually travel. Our friends […]
What happens if make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile? Find out in this video from Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. [Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell]
You might be surprised to hear that measles is 10 times more contagious than Ebola or the plague. How do epidemiologists quantify a disease’s catchiness? [SciShow]